Reebok Club C 85 Vegan 'White Classic Burgundy'
Colorway: Footwear White/Classic Cobalt/Classic Burgundy · Style code: GY7152 · Release date: June 20, 2022 · Price: $77 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Reebok x BBC Club C 85 Shoes (100285332) · Reebok x IDEA Club C 85 Shoes (100258364) · Reebok Club C 85 (AR0455) · Reebok Club C 85 'Emoji' (S29074) · Reebok Club C 85 TG (BD4759)
Every animal-derived component of the standard Club C 85, adhesives and dyes included, is swapped out on the Club C 85 Vegan, which uses a synthetic upper in place of leather. The 'White Classic Burgundy' colourway dresses that build in a white upper with the model's two-tone webbing side stripes in Classic Cobalt and Classic Burgundy, a blue-and-wine pairing that pulls the tennis shoe toward varsity and prep rather than the pastel direction of its mint sibling. A 'V' on the heel tab is the tell that separates it from a leather pair at a distance.
It released June 20, 2022 at $80, four months after the mint colourway of the same model. The cupsole is natural rubber with an EVA wedge for cushioning, and the fit is unchanged from the leather version. Burgundy and cobalt on white is a colour formula that suits the shoe's 1985 shape, so the pair wears like a period-correct court shoe while being made in a way the original never was. Among the Vegan colourways, it is the one that reads least like a concept and most like a plain good tennis shoe, which makes it the safer pick for anyone buying the Vegan for its materials rather than its colour.